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Word Lesson 6 Working with Graphics

Microsoft Office 2010

Introductory

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Objectives

Create and balance columns.

Add borders and shading.

Insert clip art and pictures.

Insert, resize, and move inline and floating

objects.

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Objectives (continued)

Recolor graphics.

Draw and modify shapes.

Add text and callouts to drawings.

Create and modify SmartArt and WordArt.

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Vocabulary

aspect ratio

callout

chart

clip art

crop

diagram

floating object

graphic

inline object

keyword

object

pull quote

rotation handle

selection rectangle

sidebar

sizing handle

SmartArt

text box

WordArt

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Working with Graphics

Graphics are pictures that help illustrate the

meaning of the text and make the page more

attractive.

You can add predefined shapes, diagrams,

and charts as well as photographs and

drawings.

You can also use the drawing tools in Word

to create your own graphics.

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Creating Columns

Columns are easy to create in Word.

You can choose one, two, or three columns

of equal width. You can also choose Left or

Right, which creates two columns with either

the left or the right column a little less than

half the size of the other column.

If none of these options suits you, you can

create columns of custom widths.

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Creating Columns (continued)

Columns menu

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Adding Borders and Shading to Paragraphs

You can specify a border style and whether a

border appears on four sides, two sides, or

one side of a paragraph.

Borders tab in the Borders and Shading

dialog box

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Adding Borders and Shading to Pages

Just as you can add borders to paragraphs,

you can add borders and shading to entire

pages.

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Understanding Objects

An object is anything that can be

manipulated as a whole, such as clip art or

another graphic that you insert in a

document.

You can insert, modify, resize, reposition,

and delete objects in documents.

You can cut, copy, and paste objects the

same way you do text.

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Inserting Clip Art

Graphics that are already drawn or

photographed and available for use in

documents are called clip art.

The term clip art also refers to photographs,

video clips, and sound files.

When searching for clip art the words you

use to describe the clip art are called

keywords.

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Inserting Clip Art (continued)

Inserting clip art

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Selecting an Object

To select an object, position the pointer over

the object, and click. A selection rectangle

with small circles and squares appears

around the object.

– The squares and circles are sizing handles. The

green circle is the rotation handle.

When you select a clip art image, the Picture

Tools Format tab appears.

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Selecting an Object (continued)

Selected picture

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Resizing an Object

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To resize an object, first select it, and then

drag a sizing handle.

The relationship of the object's height to its

width is called the aspect ratio.

If you drag a corner sizing handle (a circle),

you maintain the aspect ratio; If you drag a

side sizing handle (a square), you do not

maintain the aspect ratio.

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Repositioning and Removing an Inline Object

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When you insert an object, it is inserted as

an inline object, which means it is treated as

if it were a character in the line of text.

You can apply paragraph formatting

commands, Cut, Copy, and Paste

commands, and also drag and drop an inline

object.

To delete an object, select it, and then press

the Delete or the Backspace key.

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Wrapping Text Around an Object

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To wrap text around an object, it needs to be

changed from an inline object to a floating

object.

A floating object acts as if it were sitting in a

separate layer on the page. You can drag a

floating object anywhere on the page.

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Wrapping Text Around an Object (continued)

Wrapping text around an object

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Wrapping Text Around an Object (continued)

Text wrapping commands

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Recoloring Pictures

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You can change the brightness or contrast,

or recolor an image all in one shade.

To do this, click the contextual Format tab. In

the Adjust group, click the Corrections button

(to adjust brightness/contrast) or Color button

(to change color).

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Inserting Pictures

In Word, pictures are graphic files stored on

your computer.

Pictures are inserted as an inline object at

the location of the insertion point.

You can then change the object to a floating

object if you want, as well as resize and

reposition it, in the same manner as clip art.

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Adding Shapes

When you click a shape on the menu, the

pointer changes to the crosshairs pointer.

Drag the pointer to draw the shape. Drawn

shapes are inserted as floating objects by

default.

As with clip art objects, you can cut, copy,

and paste drawn shapes as well as move

and resize them.

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Adding Shapes (continued)

Shapes gallery

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Adding Shapes (continued)

You can add color and style to your

drawings:

– Change the color of an object.

– Change the line or outline color of a drawing.

– Change the line weight, or thickness, of lines or

shape outlines in your drawing.

The easiest way to add text to an object, is to

click an object and start typing.

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Adding Shapes (continued)

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Another way to add text to your drawing is to

insert text boxes. A text box is a shape

specifically designed to hold text.

A callout is a special type of label in a

drawing that consists of a text box with an

attached line to point to a detail in the

drawing.

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Creating Diagrams and Charts with SmartArt

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Diagrams and charts are visual

representations of data. You can insert

diagrams and charts quickly using

predesigned drawings called SmartArt.

To insert text in a SmartArt graphic, click in

each box in the graphic and start typing.

You can resize SmartArt graphics, add an

outline and a colored fill to the entire graphic.

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Creating Diagrams and Charts with SmartArt (continued)

Choose a SmartArt Graphic dialog box

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Creating WordArt

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WordArt is stylized text that is formatted and

placed in a text box.

If you select text before you click the WordArt

button, the text you selected appears in the

text box; otherwise “Your text here” appears

as a placeholder for your text.

You can change the WordArt style, color, and

outline color.

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Summary

In this lesson, you learned:

Graphics add interest to documents.

You can format all or part of a document in multiple

columns.

You can add borders and shading to selected text to

emphasize it. You can also add a page border and

shading to the entire page.

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Summary (continued)

An object is anything that can be manipulated as a

whole. An inline object is inserted as if it were a

character in a line of text. A floating object acts as if it

is sitting in a separate layer on the page.

You can insert clip art and resize and recolor it to fit

your document. You can also insert and resize

pictures in a document.

You can draw shapes in a document. Drawn objects

can be resized, moved, and colored.

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Summary (continued)

You can add text to drawn shapes or create a text

box shape. Text boxes can be formatted, resized, or

moved just like other drawn objects.

Callouts are special text boxes that have a line

attached to them to point to specific items in a

document.

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Summary (continued)

Charts and diagrams organize your data in a manner

that illustrates relationships among data. You can use

SmartArt to add charts and diagrams to documents.

You can change the structure and look of SmartArt.

You can insert WordArt to create stylized text objects.

As with other objects, you can resize, reposition, and

format WordArt.

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